Talk:Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom

Mass Immigration impact not mentioned
There is a danger in defining youth unemployment by the age groups that are current now, when the phenomenon began over a decade ago for those age groups that are now older than 25, and are in their late twenties or early thirties. As the article states, this has a major impact on future employment, due to lack of previous work experience. The primary force for youth unemployment was not the financial crisis, as this happened years after the largest and first main 21st century cause of this phenomenon, which was the entering into force of the Treaty of Athens 2003 the year after it was signed. Immigration statistics show a gigantic deluge of Polish immigrants from the time that the Treaty of Athens entered into force. With the absence of protectionist measures, native high school graduates with no work experience were rejected from local jobs, in favour of university-educated Poles, and Poles with work experience. More immigrants from the EU countries followed, most of them taking working-class jobs, which were traditionally the reserve of working-class and underclass state school and college graduates. Thus, the main victims of the Treaty of Athens and 'free movement' EU policy, were British young people - the youngest of whom were 16 and 17 in 2004. As a continuous trend, this has continued, and continues, to displace hundreds of thousands of people defined as 'youth' (by whatever arbitrary criteria are used). Thus, this should be given note as soon in the definition as causes are mentioned, and also at the top of the indented list of causes for youth unemployment.

On the subject of mass immigration, and due to the above point, it is also important that this article distinguishes between gross youth unemployment - which could include immigrants who are staying in the country through choice -, and actual unemployment of British nationals, to whom this measure should nominally apply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.110.239.227 (talk) 13:17, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that the articles Graduate unemployment in the United Kingdom and Youth Contract be merged into Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom. I think that the former two can easily be explained in the context of the latter, that there is currently not enough content in the former two to warrant separate articles, and that the articles are of sizes such that a merging will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Xagg (talk) 19:43, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Merging is certainly less onerous than expanding the articles. If I as article creator can't be bothered to expand them I can't moan that nobody else is. Francium12 (talk) 11:58, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Since the articles still hadn't been developed, and since the article creator has commented without an objection and there have been no further objections, I've merged the articles. --Xagg (talk) 17:43, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

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